问答题平常谈起幽默家，讲得最多的是：“幽默家其实是很伤感的人，是心已破碎的丑角。”这种说法有些道理。生活中的悲哀和忧郁，人皆有之。幽默家对此可能比平常人更敏感，于是就积极主动地去补偿。幽默可以使人不失面子，不伤感情地重建信心；可以用来表示道歉、拒绝、进行批评和让别人照你说的去办。幽默常常是防止小的误会升级形成隔阂的好办法，也是讨论敏感性问题时不至于引起冲突的办法。中国人几千年来受到“孝悌”和“敬重”的教育和熏陶，缺乏上述意义的幽默感。按照中国的传统：国王、官吏、领导、父母以及任何比自己年长、资格高、有名望的人都应该而且必须受到尊重……这些窒息了幽默感。此外，不同民族有各自不同的幽默方式，中国人也不例外，因此，按照字面意义直译未必能保留原文中的幽默。
问答题You have a goal and that is your long-term aspiration. Perhaps it's to be happy and stand in good relation to the world around you, to be rich so you don't have to worry about your standing, to conquer a particular area of knowledge or activity and earn recognition to ensure your standing, or simply to live an uncluttered, peaceful life, wherein you gain enough inner peace and enlightenment not to even care about your standing.
Your targets are projected landmarks in time with potentially measurable results, the achieving of which you expect to draw you closer to your goal — mastering a specific yoga posture, for example, getting a particular job, reaching a certain profitability in a business, or passing an exam.
Then you have your threats. These are all factors that threaten to prevent you achieving your targets — whether it's the weather, other people's agendas, ill-health or other possibly unforeseen contingencies.
Finally, you have your remedies, the measures you take to counter or prevent the threats. These comprise both the requisite mundane countermeasures to keep your temporal plates spinning externally and, more crucially, internal adjustments to your own state of mind and energetic flow, to enable you to attain the inner balance and clarity necessary to realign your vision with your goal, when the threats, potential or actual, have temporarily obfuscated that vision.
No matter how apparently complex the mundane details in need of attention, the internal readjustment process remains consistently simple.
For a few moments in the midst of activity, stop whatever you're doing, mentally relax your muscles and sinews, lengthen your spine, broaden your shoulders and pelvis, desist from holding your breath, soften your chest and breathe freely, allowing your belly to expand with the inhalation and contract with the exhalation. Let all thoughts about your situation and condition drift and be momentarily empty of self. Draw your. point of gazing out at the world back from your eyeballs into the center of your brain, between and behind your eyes, equidistant between your ears. Envisage your goal clearly and tell yourself, "I can do this!" and you will.
问答题文明是平等的，人类文明因平等才有交流互鉴的前提。各种人类文明在价值上是平等的，都各有千秋，也各有不足。世界上不存在十全十美的文明，也不存在一无是处的文明，文明没有高低、优劣之分。历史和现实都表明，傲慢和偏见是文明交流互鉴的最大障碍。文明是包容的，人类文明因包容才有交流互鉴的动力。海纳百川，有容乃大。人类创造的各种文明都是劳动和智慧的结晶。每一种文明都是独特的。在文明问题上，生搬硬套、削足适履不仅是不可能的，而且是十分有害的。一切文明成果都值得尊重，一切文明成果都要珍惜。历史告诉我们，只有交流互鉴，一种文明才能充满生命力。只要秉持包容精神，就不存在什么“文明冲突”，就可以实现文明和谐。这就是中国人常说的：“萝卜青菜，各有所爱。”
问答题Honesty is the best policy, as the English saying goes. Unfortunately, honesty often deserts us when no one is watching. British psychologists reported last week. Researchers at UK's Newcastle University set up an experiment in their psychology department's coffee room. They set a kettle, with tea, coffee and milk on the counter and hung up a sign listing the prices for drinka. People helping themselves to a cup of drink were supposed to put a few cents in the box nearby. The scientists hung a poster above the money box, and it changed each week between images of gazing eyes and pictures of flowers. The researchers found that staff paid 2.76 times mole for their drinks when the image of the eyes was hung. "Frankly we were shocked by the size of the effect. " said Gilbert Roberts, one of the researchers. Eyes are known to be a powerful perceptual (感官的) signal for humans. "Even though the eyes were not real, they still seemed to make people behave more honestly. " said Melissa Bateson, a behavioral biologist and leader of the study. Researchers believe the effect sheds light on our evolutionary past. It may arise from behavioral features that developed when early humans formed social groups to strengthen their chances of survival. For social groups to work, individuals had to co-operate, rather than act selfishly. "There's an argument that if nobody is watching us, it is in our interests to behave selfishly. But when we're being watched we should behave better. So people see us as co-operative and behave the same way towards us. " Bateson said. The new finding indicates that people have a striking response to eyes. That might be because eyes and faces send a strong biological signal we have evolved to respond to. The finding could be put to practical use, too. For example, images of eyes could increase ticket sales on public transport and improve supervision systems to prevent antisocial behavior.
问答题Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my mother that I loved her, I still believed I was the best daughter. Didn't I run all the way up to the terrace to check on the drying mango pickles whenever she asked? As I entered my teens, it seemed that I was becoming an even better, more loving daughter. Didn't I drop whatever I was doing each afternoon to go to the corner grocery to pick up any spices my mother had run out of? My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncle's home in provincial Barddhaman — a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me — if my grades didn't improve. Other days she would sit me down and tell me about "Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families". There were, apparently, a million ways in which one could do this, and my mother was determined that I should he cautioned against every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was "over my dead body". It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me — that is, if she loved me at all. After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought I'd shaped up nicely. I thought the same about her. We established a rhythm: She'd write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; I'd call her from the United States and tell her all the things I'd been up to and send care packages with instant Vanilla pudding, for which she'd developed a great fondness. We loved each other equally — or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born. My son's birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways I hadn't imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted fog of postpartum depression. As my husband and I walked our wailing baby up and down through the night, and I seriously contemplated going AWOL, I wondered if I was cut out to be a mother at all. And mother love — what was that all about? Then one morning, as I was changing yet another diaper, Anand grinned up at me with his toothless gums. Hmm, I thought. This little brown scrawny thing is kind of cute after all. Things progressed rapidly from there. Before I knew it, I'd moved the extra bed into the baby's room and was spending many nights on it, bonding with my son.
问答题It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge. If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.
I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
问答题It's a typical Snoopy card: cheerful message, bright colors, though a little yellow and faded now. Though I've received fancier, more expensive card over the years, this is the only one I've saved. One summer, it spoke volumes to me. I received it during the first June I faced as a widow to raise two teenage daughters alone. In all the emotional confusion of this sudden single parenthood. I was overwhelmed with, of all things, the simplest housework: leaky taps, oil changes, even barbeques (烧烤). Those had always been my husband's jobs. I was embarrassed every time I hit my thumb with a hammer or couldn't get the lawnmower (割草机) started. My uncertain attempts only fueled the fear inside me: How could I be both a father and mother to my girls? Clearly, I lacked the tools and skills. On this particular morning, my girls pushed me into the living room to see something. (I prayed it wasn't another repair job. ) The "something" turned out to be an envelope and several wrapped bundles on the carpet. My puzzlement must have been plain as I gazed from the colorful packages to my daughters' bright faces. "Go ahead! Open them! "They urged. As I unwrapped the packages, I discovered a small barbecue grill(烧烤架) and all the necessary objects including a green kitchen glove with a frog pattern on it. "But why? " I asked. "Happy Father's Day! " they shouted together. "Moms don't get presents on Father's Day. " I protested. "You forgot to open the card. " Jane reminded. I pulled it from the envelope. There sat Snoopy, on top of his dog house, merrily wishing me a Happy Father's Day. "Because," the girls said, "you've been a father and mother to us. Why shouldn't you be remembered on Father' s Day?" As I fought back tears, I realized they were right, I wanted to be a "professional" dad, who had the latest tools and knew all the tricks of the trade. The girls only wanted a parent they could count on to be there, day after day, performing repeatedly the maintenance tasks of basic care and love. The girls are grown now, and they still send me Father's Day cards, but none of those cards means as: much to me as that first one. Its simple message told me being a great parent didn't require any special tools at all -just a willing worker.
问答题九旬院士台上拄拐作报告，90后学生台下一片片睡倒，一大早看到新闻中这样的画面对比，真让人难过!有人说这像个笑话，不错，学生素质沦落至此，品德教育失败至此，的确像个笑话。
发生这样的事情，大多数人都表示很气愤，而学生则成为众矢之的。大家普遍认为，首先，一个人应该有起码的尊重知识的礼貌!别人向我们传授知识，我们应该尊重；退一步讲，一个人应该有起码的尊重老人的礼貌!德高望重的老前辈以92岁高龄，仍孜孜不倦，为大家传道授业解惑，作为后生，怎好意思睡?再退一步，一个人应该有起码的懂得回敬的礼貌!大家应该都能注意到，吴教授全程是拄拐站立作报告的，他一个九旬老人，这一行为充分表示了对台下学生的尊重，而学生们就算不能发自内心尊重别人，但起码的投桃报李的规矩，应该遵守一下吧?
这件事不得不说是品德教育失败的一个典型案例。对老教授讲的内容，你可以不欣赏，不赞同，可以挑剔他语速慢、不生动，也可以选择不来听，但既然选择坐在那里，就不要敷衍。可台下很多学生都没做到，可见当下不少年轻人素质低下，令人心寒!老教授走下讲台后，不知心里会有多悲凉!就是围观的我们，也实在看不下去。这还是名牌大学的学生吧，一点尊师重道的礼貌都没有，真不敢相信他们能取得什么样的成就，就算有，在人品上也已经输了。
如今有些年轻人，听周杰伦演唱会，一个赛一个喊声震天；看快乐大本营，也一个比一个精神，为什么给你讲点知识，分享点人生哲理，你就犯困了?大白天的，能有多困?要知道多少人想听吴院士的报告却没有机会啊，多么奢侈的一睡!
其实不光听讲座，如今大学生课堂上睡觉、逃课也是家常便饭。这固然有老师讲课不吸引人的原因，可大学生个人素质的滑坡，也着实让人担忧。老师讲的是做人道理，学生想的是功名利禄；老师讲的是终身发展，学生要的是急功近利；老师讲的是如何走正道，学生想的是如何走捷径。须知课堂上趴着，人生中很可能会趴下，课堂上睡倒的，不仅仅是学生的身体，还有他们的教养、道德和灵魂。
此情此景此地此时此群人，堪悲堪叹堪忧堪慨堪心酸。千年的精气神若为物质充裕，而理想迷失，则未来何处去?江山何人守?少年强则国强，如果我们的少年都是这种状态，如何能志存高远，身体力行?不但其个人发展令人担忧，国家的发展和民族的梦想也十分堪忧。
在多数人对学生进行道德讨伐的同时，也有一些人表示理解。其实这里面有个关键问题：来的不一定感兴趣，感兴趣的不一定来了。所以睡觉的年轻人素质教养固然成问题，但主办者灌输教育的思维定式和方法是否也应检讨反思?其实，这样的活动在学校里搞，让学生自己报名参加，效果可能会更好。而不少组织者在组织类似活动的时候，不讲实际，为撑场面搞摊派，经常组织专业不对口的人听讲，结果弄得学生教授都尴尬。这也是为什么中国的学生很苦很累，却成不了栋梁的重要原因!
讲和听本是互动关系，在互联网时代更可能是偶像粉丝关系，所以教育工作一定要用互联网思维来改进教育方式，对90后也要多多了解他们的内心和真正需求。
最后引用时评人罗世军的一句话：这如同一记响亮的耳光，不论打在学生还是教育身上，请不要痛过之后就忘了。
问答题Passage 2
A Different Consensus
Even as the U.S. Senate debates a vast new tax and spend regime in the name of fighting climate change, a more instructive argument was taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Some of the world"s leading economists met earlier this month to decide how to do the most good in a world of finite resources.
Scarcity is a core economic concept. There isn"t an unlimited amount of money to be spent on every problem, so choices have to be made. The question addressed by the Copenhagen Consensus Center is what investments would do the most good for the most people. The center"s blue-ribbon panel of economists, including five Nobel laureates, weighed more than 40 proposals to improve the world by spending a total of $75 billion over the next four years.
What would do the most good most economically? Supplements of vitamin A and zinc for malnourished children.
Number two? A successful outcome to the Doha Round of global flee-trade talks.
Global warming mitigation? It ranked 30th, or last, right behind global warming mitigation research and development.
On the benefits of freer trade, it was estimated that a successful Doha Round could generate up to $113 trillion in new wealth during the 21st century, at a cost of $420 billion or less from inefficient industries going bust.
Meanwhile, providing vitamin A and zinc would help some 112 million children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia for merely $60 million a year. The minerals would help prevent blindness and stunted growth—increasing lifetime productivity by an estimated $1 billion. Similar if not quite so bountiful returns apply to investments in iron supplements, salt iodization and deworming, all low-cost measures that the economists in Copenhagen ranked highly.
问答题中国政府高度重视人口与发展问题，将人口与发展问题作为国民经济和社会发展总体规划的重要组成部分列入议事日程，始终强调人口增长与经济社会发展相适应，与资源利用和环境保护相协调。二十世纪九十年代以来，中央政府每年召开一次关于人口与发展问题的座谈会，研究分析重大问题，制定重大决策和措施。国家组织、协调有关部门和群众团体共同实施人口与计划生育方案，将计划生育与发展经济、消除贫困、保护生态环境、合理利用资源、普及文化教育、发展卫生事业、完善社会保障、提高妇女地位等紧密结合起来，努力从根本上解决中国的人口与发展问题。
问答题近年来，中国经济保持快速发展，为世界经济发展注入了活力。实践证明了中国在加入世贸组织之前的预言：中国的发展离不开世界，世界的发展需要中国。未来20年，在全面建设小康社会的进程中，中国一定会对世界经济的发展和实现全人类的共同进步做出历史性的贡献。为此，中国将继续扩大外贸，大力实施西部大开发战略，进一步改善投资环境，为外商提供更大的商机。同时，中国将引导和支持更多有比较优势的企业对外投资，开展平等互利、形式多样的经济技术合作。中国将进一步加强双边、多边和区域经济合作，实现世界各国各地区的共同发展。
问答题每个人一生中都该有个志向，否则他的精力便会浪费掉。每个青年人都力求成为一个有成就的人物。一个青年人只期望富有是不明智的，或只专心于求得权利与名望也是不对的。一个青年人希望做个有成就者，结果常常会实现。狄斯累里(Disraeli)的故事是个例证。狄斯累里开始过公众生活时渴望能成为一个学者及演说家。他在文学方面的成就比演说方面更为成功。起初他作为一个演说家时是完全失败的。不过，他认为有把握克服障碍，遂以不屈不挠的精神致力于这个目标的实现。他的一些朋友认为他这个念头是蠢的，甚至是古怪的，但他坚持目标不舍，最后终于成功，成为英国曾经产生的最有丰富知识的学者与最雄辩的演说家之一。这个故事并不是引来说明：只是大学者或演说家，或二者兼而有之者才是有成就的人物。除了做学者或演说家之外，还有许多同样高尚与可敬的事业。它只是用来说明一个青年人须志向高远，因为“宁可志高而达不到目标，也不要志低而达到”
问答题Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a remarkable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than 660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however; technology has also enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in some cases thousands of years to build. Many of the world's coral species, for example, are found at depths of more than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the world's highest seamounts — areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in marine life — are also found in the deep ocean. These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish and other creatures, as well as protection from strong currents and predators. Moreover, they are believed to harbor some of the most extensive reservoirs of life on earth, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 100 million species inhabiting these largely unexplored and highly fragile ecosystems. Yet just as we are beginning to recognize the tremendous diversity of life in these areas, along with the potential benefits newly found species may hold for human society in the form of potential food products and new medicines, they are at risk of being lost forever. With enhanced ability both to identify where these species-rich areas are located and to trawl in deeper water than before, commercial fishing vessels are now beginning to reach down with nets the size of football fields, catching everything in their path while simultaneously crushing fragile corals and breaking up the delicate structure of reefs and seamounts that provide critical habitat to the countless species of fish and other marine life that inhabit the deep ocean floor. Because deep sea bottom trawling is a recent phenomenon, the damage that has been done is still limited. If steps are taken quickly to prevent this kind of destructive activity from occurring on the high seas, the benefits both to the marine environment and to future generations are incalculable. And they far outweigh the short-term costs to the fishing industry.
问答题市场中蕴藏着巨大的活力，人民中蕴藏着无穷的创造力。我们将继续加大简政放权力度，建立政府权力清单制度，探索实行负面清单管理模式，通过中国上海自由贸易试验区等建设，形成有益经验，并复制与推广到其他地区。这有利于放宽市场准入，更好创造营商环境，鼓励公平竞争，建设法治经济，也会更多释放改革红利，激发社会创造活力，稳定市场预期。开放也是改革，开放可以促进改革。我们将着力推动新一轮高水平对外开放，一个很重要的方面，就是要扩大服务业包括资本市场的对外开放。譬如，我们将来积极创造条件，建立上海与香港股票市场交易互联互通机制，进一步促进中国内地与香港资本市场双向开放和健康发展。我们将与国际市场更深度融合，不断提升对外开放的层次和水平。
问答题Strolling beside Amsterdam"s oldest canals, where buildings carry dates like 1541 and 1603, it is easy to imagine the city"s prosperity in the 17th century. Replace today"s bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.
Such musings are not, of course, unprompted. This year, Amsterdam is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt"s birth, and it is hard to escape his shadow. His birthplace in Leiden, 20 miles south, has naturally organized its own festivities. But Amsterdam has two advantages: it boasts the world"s largest Rembrandt collection—and tourists like to come here anyway.
True, anniversaries can be pretty corny, but what city resists them? This year, Amsterdam is competing with Salzburg, where Mozart was born 250 years ago, and Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne died a century ago. A sign in Amsterdam"s tourist office by the Central Station hints at one motive for such occasions: "Buy your Rembrandt products here."
Still, if you start off by liking Rembrandt, as I do, there is much to discover. For instance, when in Amsterdam I always make a point of paying homage to the Rembrandt masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum, yet until now I had never bothered to visit Rembrandt House, where the painter lived from 1639 until driven out by bankruptcy in 1658. In brief, had never much connected his art to his person.
Now, at least, I have made a stab at doing so because, for this anniversary (he was born on July 15, 1606), Amsterdam has organized a host of events that offer insights into Rembrandt"s world. They highlight not only what is known about his life, but also the people he painted and the city he lived in from the age of 25 until his death at 63 in 1669.
Although the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a massive renovation through 2009, the museum is not snubbing its favorite son. Throughout the year, in part of the building to be renovated last, it is presenting some 400 paintings and other 17th-century objects representing the Golden Age in which Rembrandt prospered. These include works by Jan Steen, Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils. And they climax with Rembrandt"s largest and best known oil, "The Night Watch," itself the focus of "Nightwatching," a light and sound installation by the British movie director and Amsterdam resident, Peter Greenaway.
问答题When I saw the notice "Women film extras wanted" in a local newspaper, I jumped at the chance. Since childhood, I had dreamt of being a film star. The casting interview went well, and two clays later I was told that I had been chosen. I was to lose some of my enthusiasm for the idea, however extras are often left in the dark for some time as to which role they will play. Finally , the nature of my role was revealed: I was asked to play a mental hospital patient. Despite my disappointment, I agreed to participate. Then, barely a week later, the day of filming dawned. An 13 of us extras, mainly housewives, were driven to an old hospital. The coffee and tea they served us looked and tasted like cement. Then we were rushed off to make-up. My hair was pinned back and make-up was applied that gave me a pale appearance. Then we just sat in a minibus for a few hours, as the cameras rolled elsewhere. After the second hour had passed I was becoming bored. I bet stars are never treated like this, I thought. I had expected to be so busy that I hadn't come prepared for a long wait. Many of the others had brought a book or knitting. Three hours had now passed. Then at last we were called to do our scenes. When the director came in, we were instructed where to stand and what to do. Along with a few others, I was told to sit at a table and weave baskets. This was not an easy task. The cane (藤条)we had to use was very long. On several occasions my basket fell apart in front of my very eyes. On others I only succeeded in hitting a cameraman in the eye. Life for the other extras was far from easy. Jean, who was barefoot, had to circle the floor. Poor Alice was asked to pretend to bang her head against the wall. Meanwhile, Veronica swept the floor. Thankfully, after just a few attempts, the scenes were done. And so my first taste of this" glorious" career was over. Although I found the experience quite interesting. My first screen role will almost certainly be my last.
问答题Passage 1
WATERLOO， Belgium — The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield was back then， when the Duke of Wellington， as commander of an international alliance of forces， crushed Napoleon.
A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont， which was crucial to the battle’s outcome， is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby， an underground visitor center is under construction， and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6，000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.
While the battle ended two centuries ago， however， hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here， and not everyone here shares Britain’s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon’s defeat.
Every year， in districts of Wallonia， the French-speaking part of Belgium， there are fetes to honor Napoleon， according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen， a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for restoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon， for these people， was very popular，” Mr. Jacobs， 73， said over coffee. “That is why， still today， there are some enemies of the project.”
Belgium， of course， did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands， while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers， Mr. Jacobs said， Napoleon had a “huge influence — the administration， the Code Napoléon，” or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington， French speakers fought with Napoleon.
That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in resistance to a British proposal that， as part of the restoration of Hougoumont， a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18， 1815， when Wellington carried the day. “Every discussion in the committee was filled with high sensitivity，” Mr. Jacobs recalled. “I said， ‘This is a condition for the help of the British，’ so the North Gate won the battle， and we got the monument.”
If Belgium was reluctant to get involved， France was at first totally uninterested. “They told us， ‘We don’t want to take part in this British triumphalism，’ ” said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria， a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.
问答题国际经验与中国特色
中国作为后发现代化国家，极其需要借鉴国际经验。同时，在和平崛起进程中，中国又要以自己为主，来关注和解决自己的问题。这就是说，中国的现代化一定要有中国特色。
比如，在农业问题上，中国将努力走出一条新的节约型道路，即有中国特色的节约方式。现在美国人均年消费石油25桶，而中国人均消费不到1桶半。如果中国人不顾自己的条件，异想天开想做起“美国梦”，那我们对能源急切需求就会给自己，同时也会给人类带来沉重的负担和无尽的麻烦。
又比如，在农村富余劳动力的转移上，我们将逐步走出一条中国特色的城市化道路。目前，中国农村劳动力有5亿多人，今后20年大约有2亿人要转移出来，在这个问题上，中国人不能做“欧洲梦”。欧洲在近代历史上，总共有6000多万人走到世界各地，到处建立殖民地，改变了世界版图。21世纪上半叶的中国人，只能在自己的国土上，通过城市和农村的精心协调发展，通过引导农村富余劳动力在不丧失土地的条件下，在城乡之间有序流动，来解决这个世界级的大难题。
问答题众所周知，鸟无翅膀不能飞，人无双腿不能走。但对尹小星而言，鸟无翅膀不能飞，人无双腿却能走! 1970年出生于江苏一户农民家庭的尹小星，出生仅8个月就患小儿麻痹症并发急性肺炎。虽然最终保住了命，他却再也不能站立。因为身体残疾，初中毕业后小星不得不辍学。生存的压力对他来说显得格外沉重，他贩过水果，养过鸡，还下工夫学习过中医。 在他21岁的时候，这个年轻人竞怀揣一幅地图，手持一个指南针，摇着轮椅踏上了走遍全中国的艰难路途。 近12年来小星手摇轮椅，足迹遍布31个省、市、自治区，行程7万多公里，用坏了4部轮椅。他实现了徒手攀登泰山、华山、衡山等20多座名山，孤身翻越海拔5231米的唐古拉山，手摇轮椅走过丝绸之路，穿越塔克拉玛干(Taklimakan)大沙漠，徒手攀登上海东方明珠电视塔，圆满完成从沙漠到香港的旅行。
问答题For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. They have been recovered from most of the major river systems and even from streams of groundwater flowing unseen through the earth. Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been applied a dozen years before. They have entered and lodged in the bodies of fish, birds, reptiles, and domestic and wild animals so universally that scientists carrying on animal experiments find it almost impossible to locate subjects free from such contamination. They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds — and in man himself. For these chemicals arc now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. They occur in the mother's milk, and probably in the tissues of the unborn child.
All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
The result has been a seemingly endless stream of synthetic insecticides.
What sets the new synthetic insecticides apart is their enormous biological potency. They have immense power not merely to poison but to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Thus, as we shall see, they destroy the very enzymes whose function is to protect the body from harm, they block the oxidation processes from which the body receives its energy, they prevent the normal functioning of various organs, and they may initiate in certain ceils the slow and irreversible change that leads to malignancy.